Anæmia. Pt. 1, vol. 1, Normal and pathological histology of the blood / by P. Ehrlich and A. Lazarus ; translated from the German by H.W. Armit.

  • Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Anæmia. Pt. 1, vol. 1, Normal and pathological histology of the blood / by P. Ehrlich and A. Lazarus ; translated from the German by H.W. Armit. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION It is now more than ten years since I, together with my pupil, A. Lazarus, published the First Edition of this part of Ancemia. Apart from a critical description of general clinical methods of examination, it dealt with the position at that time of the normal and pathological histology of the blood. It was, moreover, intended that this book should be especially devoted to a r4sume of the various works published by me and my pupils, as well as the hitherto unpublished results of my investigations and the views which I had adopted on the basis of these results. A glance over the hrematological literature of the last ten years—a literature which has assumed almost immeasurable dimensions—shows that our Anccmia has stimulated investigation widely and has influenced it. The large majority of the Com- munications have dealt with the problems which have been discussed in our book, and while some of these works Support the views set forth, others oppose them. Histologists as well as clinicians have taken a very lively part in this criticism. It has been of the greatest satisfaction to me that my seed has fallen on such fruitful soil; but it is especially pleasant for me to find that, after the completion of these ten years, the views which I have from the first defended as the foundation of modern cellular hfematology, in spite of the Opposition of many renowned observers, have been more and more acknowledged, and I am convinced that within a very short space of time absolute unanimity with regard to these questions will reign among htematologists, as far as the principles are concerned, in concord with my doctrines. It is true that more recent work has removed